"All school activities, organizations (including the booster club), events and personnel are under the jurisdiction of the superintendent," the guidelines read. "Booster clubs must recognize this authority and work within a framework prescribed by the school administration. "

But while the UIL encourages cooperation between parents and administration to help financially support athletic teams, those in the Central community say they don't have a way to participate.

"Ozen and West Brook have their own booster clubs and it's funded and controlled by the parents," Mojica said. "But Ms. Patricia Lambert controls this."

Lambert is the BISD Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction & Secondary Schools.

Mojica said that his first child enrolled at Central in 1999 and he joined the booster club a couple years later. He said Lambert assumed control of the booster club in 2006 and has blocked parents out ever since.

"I've been affiliated with Central for nearly 15 years and this is as bad as it has got," Mojica said. "When teams needed things, (Lambert) would say no. Central does not have a booster club. It goes through the school. If you go to the concession stand, there's only certain people that work the concession stand."

Parents' distrust stems partly from a lack of financial transparency. Ozen and West Brook parents operate the concessions at their games and receive an accounting of the revenue, which is allocated by the booster clubs' boards, with the input of the coaches and the approval of the principals.

Mojica and other Central parents are claiming that poor management and bookkeeping resulted in thousands of dollars from the first two Central football games going missing.

The UIL handbook advises, "periodic financial statements itemizing all receipts and expenditures should be made to the general club membership and kept on file at the school."

Mojica says Central is the only school in the district that operates that way. Information for the West Brook and Ozen athletic booster clubs can be found online.

"She can't do that at West Brook because they would not allow it," Mojica said. "Try to have the school take over the booster club at West Brook and see what the parents say. It would never happen."

West Brook athletic booster club president Bo Kelley said his club maintains strict protocol for financial dealings.

At home West Brook games, the concession stand is run by the booster club. At the end of the game, the club's treasurer and assistants count the cash and deposit it that night in a bank account. Kelley said an Excel spreadsheet is kept to balance the books.

"To my knowledge, Ozen and us are similar in our operations," he said. "All I heard is that the Central booster club was doing really well when they were parent-oriented, but that was taken away by administration."